eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Interactive Lectures : Incorporating interactive activities like polls, quizzes, or discussions into lectures keeps students engaged and reinforces key concepts. Another example could be a history lesson where students participate in a role-playing activity, reenacting historical events or debates.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In Flipped Classroom setups, students learn at home via online coursework and video-recorded lectures, and teachers use class time for teacher-guided practice or projects. Scott Nolt, a high school history teacher in North Carolina, has been using blended learning for years as a way to teach his students without daily direct instruction.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

After teaching online in the pandemic, many savvy faculty members have recognized that students like the option of being able to watch a video of a lecture if they missed it — or if they just wanted to rewatch sections to review. Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2017

Research has shown repeatedly that humans learn more rapidly and deeply from experiences, rather than from a lecture or a book. Or, while walking through a city, a tourist gets real-time history lessons with video of the historical characters overlaying the real-life scene. Next page: digital cohesion considerations and challenges).

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

This is tantamount to a lecture series on anything from space exploration, artificial intelligence, or even telephone scams. How often in your own education have you drifted off during class while the teacher explains something as germane as American History?

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2017

MOOCs are a lot like college courses; students will be required to do homework and “attend” lectures if they want to succeed. MOOCs—also known as “massive open online courses”—are virtual courses open to anyone, anywhere (and usually are free!). The options can be personalized to individual goals.

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eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2019

The winning entries will be judged on how well the children’s book series was used to teach subjects such as history, math, and science. The Magic Tree House 2019 Educator of the Year Award honors a teacher who creatively and successfully incorporates Magic Tree House fiction and nonfiction into the classroom curriculum.

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eSchool News

JUNE 19, 2017

Even when students aren’t sitting through lectures, they’re still accustomed to letting their teachers dictate the pace, style, and direction of learning. But some forward-thinking classrooms have turned that model completely on its head, handing students control over lessons and often shifting teachers to supporting roles.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Lecture + Digital Formative Assessment I recently attended a local conference and the keynote was delivered by Aaron Polansky , superintendent from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, Mass. Within his talk he exclaimed, “Lectures are only terrible if you are a terrible lecturer!”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Consequently, the use of discovery—a loaded term if there ever was one—in older history texts is one of the most common examples of how bias can creep into social studies classrooms and can inform (or warp) our worldview. EdSurge: Is it possible to teach politics and history as a centrist? History is very complex.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

My classroom teachers have been so impressed with student engagement with the lock boxes that I have been recruited to help set up math, history, and science lessons using Breakout EDU. Technology is an amazing tool, but just like any lecture, tech is subject to the “bottom endurance” rule.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In more traditional K-12 public schools on the other hand, there’s a long history of the way teachers teach and the way students learn—stretching back to the 19 th century—that can make innovation difficult. If some of the more rote sorts of lessons (think lectures, reviewing math facts, etc.) What other experiences can students have?

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2021

Yamaha’s rich history delivering audio hardware and HuddleCamHD’s innovations in video conferencing will provide customers with scalable solutions for video conferencing, hybrid learning, and other communications from the home, office, or event space.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2016

Two sample lessons , one on the history of science and another, set on a pier, on how to sink a target using a simple ballistic trajectory equation. Locations include a meeting room, lecture hall, Dino Beach, shallow water, moon base, Martian surface, gallery space and hub spaces. Two virtual galleries. Various virtual spaces.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

The approach involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. It was called PSI, or Personalized System of Instruction.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

You can record lectures. And more lectures. It can be even more nefarious when you’re teaching online because the online world is built to hold and move information. You can share reams of text and bucket loads of data. You can stack links on links on links, embedding hypertexts in between.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

History class, approached me after the White House threatened to revoke temporary protected status (TPS) for immigrants from El Salvador. Lecturing and quizzing on content is more efficient than coaching and mentoring groups of students through real-world problems. Service-Learning in Action Jeslyn, a student in my U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

For Pickett, it is a struggle to implement new digital learning styles with adult students as many of them are accustomed to traditional lecture models and are dismayed when they don't get what they expect. I got people telling me; ‘This is history. I have had students tell me. One student wrote me this email.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

And he suggests that in the future students may be able to choose the “gender” and “race” of the interactive agent delivering a lecture or serving as their AI tutor, much as people today can select the gender and accent of the Siri assistant on their iPhone.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her introductory history course with a batch of videos. For her, that meant reducing the amount of lecture time and spending part of class sessions on team-based projects. “It

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

And improved access to devices and high-speed Wi-Fi means that traditional classrooms lectures need not be limited to the physical classroom space. In an inclusive classroom, the instructor must embrace their own history and privilege, as well as and students’ histories.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

history at Merit Prep, devotes most of her class time to small-group instruction and conferences with individual students. Traditional whole-class lectures, a staple of high school history, are non-existent in her classes. Traditional whole-class lectures, a staple of high school history, are non-existent in her classes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Also, people will say students lose their attention if you lecture at them for a long time. And I know that you can lose students just as easily in a 75-minute discussion as you can in a 75-minute lecture. There’s a chapter of that book that goes through the history of people talking about their distractible minds.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Place-based instruction allows us to learn more about our region today, the history of the people and their varied perspectives, and to establish a culture of citizenship and community pride to foster growth for future generations. What was the purpose of reading through history in chronological order?

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

At Purdue University, leaders have famously announced they are installing plexiglass barriers in some classrooms that teachers will stand behind to lecture. And they'll be pretty isolated from each other during the lecture experience. So I was wondering if anyone has really started to rethink lecturing as an effective way of teaching?

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

PSI involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Zimmerman talks about the story, and other surprising moments from teaching history, in this week’s episode of the EdSurge Podcast.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 19, 2016

This is a much more exciting way of studying history than to read chapter after chapter of text, with students forced to memorize names and dates instead of comprehending the significance of events. The ability to handle and examine historical objects contributes in many ways to making history lessons more interesting. . Final Word.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2016

I could have lectured him that, in fact, there were no bugmen, and that his view did not comport with reality. We create an artificial world where subjects like history, science, and physical education are separated into distinct, and unreal, classes without reference to each other.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Crash Course tackles weighty subjects like European history and organic chemistry. But it does so with wit and humor, and it has the snappy pace that feels more like an episode of the Simpsons than the typical classroom lecture. His book, “ The Fault in Our Stars ,” was made into a major motion picture.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Numerous online resources exist where you can find lecture notes, study guides, and other helpful materials. homework, lecture notes, practice tests). Keeping lecture notes, study guides, and other resources well-organized saves time and reduces the frustration of searching for materials during study sessions.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

So if I’m going to teach the history of adaptive tutors in class one day, I’m just thinking about the facts around that. Also, I’m thinking about the design of my lesson, what I have planned to be able to have people engage with that history. At a minimum, I’m thinking about the substantive domain that I’m teaching about.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Within Sandbox AR, users can create virtual worlds and populate them with some of the hundreds of unique objects from history, the built world, science and nature, and more. The digital pen allows teachers to enhance lectures and maintain eye contact with students while working remotely.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Mills Kelly, a professor of history at George Mason University, has looked into alternative designs for faculty offices as part of the planning of a new academic building. Mills Kelly, a professor of history at George Mason University who has been involved in the building planning. Personally, he'd like a window.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2020

So if we had a faculty member who has to do chemistry lectures and has never worked in this environment, rather than have him or her record an hour-and-a-half lecture four days a week, there might be high-quality, six-minute lectures that you can find in a Coursera course and repurpose,” Pickus said.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Now he could spend hours learning about Greek history and chess as she blasted Hamilton while drawing and writing creative stories. Are they going to implode if they learn some history and science from BrainPop? My son was able to learn by himself most of the time and seek help only when he got stuck.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2021

When studying the history of Chicago with my third-grade students, understanding identity was critical to understanding Chicago’s long-standing inequality. That said, spending too much time in whole-group instruction creates a culture of dependent learning, leveraging outdated practices like lecturing or rote memorization.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

And the related place-based learning sees students explore the history and culture of their own region. Taking Action All the different flairs of “-based” learning may have a long history in education. Inquiry-based learning, for example, teaches students how to ask better questions, and then go about figuring out the answers.

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